La Marina de Valencia
Purpose-built regatta marina from two America's Cup races, now leased for business and events.
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This guide to La Marina de Valencia traces the marina back to Switzerland's landlocked America's Cup win in 2003, which sent the team hunting for a coastal city and landed on Valencia's bid, backed by a state loan worth roughly five hundred million euros for a new canal, a mega yacht dock and team bases. You'll hear how two Cup regattas came and went, in 2007 and 2010, and how the crowds and sponsors packed up for good afterward, leaving the public body running the marina piling up debt for a decade. Supermarket billionaire Juan Roig's name appears nowhere on the glass offices he ended up leasing here, on some of the most fought-over ground the marina ever produced.
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